Re: On Topic Thursday: The Eternal Conflict

James Nicoll wrote:
Have you read Garfinkle's ALL OF AN INSTANT? It's involves
conflict between time travellers in a universe whose history is extremely maliable. The mechanism for this, the Instant, doesn't
seem to have duration as we know it and how to measure the duration
of the conflict outside it is not obvious.

Now *thats* one thought provoking book. Almost as
good as his novel CELESTIAL MATTERS.
It is set inside the so-called "block-model"
of time, which you can read more about in
Rudy Rucker's science fact book THE FOURTH DIMENSION.
Garfinkle really did his homework.
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Relevant Pages

  • "All of an Instant" (was: On Topic Thursday: The Eternal Conflict)
    ... conflict between time travellers in a universe whose history is ... duration of the conflict outside it is not obvious. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: "All of an Instant"
    ... conflict between time travellers in a universe whose history is ... duration of the conflict outside it is not obvious. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: On Topic Thursday: The Eternal Conflict
    ... SF has the advantage that while history only goes back perhaps 9,000 ... how do you count a conflict that spands parallel ... seem to have duration as we know it and how to measure the duration ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: On Topic Thursday: The Eternal Conflict
    ... SF has the advantage that while history only goes back perhaps 9,000 ... how do you count a conflict that spands parallel ... the Time Wars might be somewhat more c omplicated ... seem to have duration as we know it and how to measure the duration ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Project has a mind of its own!
    ... When to View-Resource sheet and added one engineer. ... hours is the total in-reality duration of this ... Supertask Duration totals add up to be only 40 hours. ... When there is no conflict, it says there is, and when there ...
    (microsoft.public.project)